As a follow up to the list: it seems this issue is an audio settings/permissions problem that may happen after upgrading to macOS 10.15. It doesn't appear to be something we can fix in Pd.

The whole discussion is on the Github issue: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1208

On Nov 4, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:

Issue has now been opened on Github. I tried to be as detailed a possible to save you some work.

On Nov 4, 2020, at 11:43 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

You can open an issue with your original text and we can paste the relevant parts of this thread there.

On Nov 4, 2020, at 5:39 PM, Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, let’s handle this on Github.

On Nov 4, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you have a Github account? At this point, it would be easier to do back & forth in a bug issue there.

On Nov 4, 2020, at 5:34 PM, Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:

HI Dan,

Starting Pd after running those lines only yields a permissions request pertaining to my Documents folder. 

I nuked the folder you listed and restarted my machine. Starting Pd yields a crash. I’m sending the report to you off list.

Ricky

On Nov 4, 2020, at 11:29 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, so that confirms it uses the bundle id from the Pd .app, aka what is set in the Info.plist. Strangely this is not used in 10.14 but is in 10.15, or at least the tool doesn't recognize it,

Anyway, does starting Pd after running that show the dialog? If not, can you nuke the permissions file, reboot, and try again? As this is the first and only report we've gotten about this, I imagine it may just be something specific to your setup and, hopefully, not something that happens to everyone.

On Nov 4, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dan,

tccutil reset Microphone org.puredata.pd.pd-gui
Yields:
Successfully reset Microphone approval status for org.puredata.pd.pd-gui
Successfully reset Microphone approval status for org.puredata.pd.pd-gui
Successfully reset Microphone approval status for org.puredata.pd.pd-gui
Successfully reset Microphone approval status for org.puredata.pd.pd-gui


tccutil reset Microphone org.puredata.pd
Yields:
tccutil: No such bundle identifier "org.puredata.pd": The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10814.)

Ricky


On Nov 4, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

The preferences files don't appear to be used to store which apps asked for permissions, so that shouldn't be needed. Judging from this, you can nuke the existing permissions state via:

   rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC

then rebooting:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/384317/how-do-i-reset-camera-and-microphone-permission-on-macos-mojave

Before you do that, can you try running both of the following?

   tccutil reset Microphone org.puredata.pd.pd-gui

   tccutil reset Microphone org.puredata.pd

For me, running either of these results in

   tccutil: No such bundle identifier

which is strange as *one* of those should be associated with the permissions state. Maybe this changed on macOS 10.15? I guess I should update one of these days, but I've been waiting for 11.0 and probably a new computer...











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